Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1987, 4:24 PM EDT for Burke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1987, 4:24 PM EDT (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1987, 5:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burke County, NC
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 4:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Burke, NC |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 247 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1442 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:26 PM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 125 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS FORM OVER THE SOUTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS... AT 1.20 THIS AFTERNOON A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED BY WEATHER RADAR SCATTERED ALONG THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTH CAROLINA...FROM JUST NORTH OF WALHALLA...TO ROCKY BOTTOM...TO CAESARS HEAD...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE OVER SOUTH CAROLINA...AND THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS LIeKELY TO GRADUALLY INCREASE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...INTENSE LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE HAIL...AS THEY MOVE EAST ACROSS THE UPSTATE COUNTIES. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 201 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1987 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS... AT 1.55 THIS AFTERNOON A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED BY WEATHER RADAR ALONG THE SOUTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS...OVER LAKE KEOWEE AND NEAR TIGERVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST ABOUT 15 MPH. THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE OVER NORTHWESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS LIKELY TO SLOLWY INCREASE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...INTENSE LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE HAIL...AS THEY MOVE EAST ACROSS THE UPSTATE COUNTIES. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 240 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1987 AT 235PM A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR JUST EAST OF HENDERSONVILLE. DURING THE PAST HOUR SEVERAL OTHER THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS D?URING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS FOR INFORMATION ON THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. RED
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 56 min |
| Jun 3, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 57 min |
| Jun 3, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.